The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-07-23
"SINs OF OMISSION"

preferred by the Telegraph
against the present State administra.
ton, the Bulletin assumes that the
charges we're made against Gov. Nc
Emery, personally, and proceeds, by
way of illustration, tn defend the Gov.
ernor and prove that he was not, and
could not have been, guilty of the
charges made. If the charges had been |
made against Gov. McEaery, person.
ally, the verbose profandity OF that two
column article, with the little by-play
farcial illustration, would not have
been amiss, but since it was not SO,
what In the name of high heaven the
use of all those words?
II the charges are not well founded
why not disprove them?
II the executive head of govern
ment Is not responsible for clean adj
ministration of public affairs why not
say so and prove It?
If land grabs, and school money
grabs, and falsifying election returns,
and ringsters growing fat AT the public
crib are not scandals upon Gov. Nc
Enery's administration, why not say
80 and have the courage TO go before
the people, tell them so, aud in the
face Of it, ask their suffrage?
But the administration will neither
admit nor deny tho charges, but SEEM
ingly prefers to treat them with in
differences bugbcars, mare's-nests,
etc.
Grave charges cannot be met that
way.
1t will not satisfy tho people.
Neither will they be deceived by
that style OF argument.
The issue must be made up by an
answer pleading to the merits.
And II there be nothing in the
charges the sovereign people constitute
a high and just tribunal and they will
readily render verdict of "not guilty."
But read how the Bulletin defends
Cor rather evades) the charges:
He (Gov. McEnery) Is charged with
being in some unknown and mysterious
manner responsible for a certain Gland
grab" which is said to have occurred
during the administration of Gov.
Wil,z. From this it is to be inferred
that s. ID. McEnery was not only
Lleutenant.G Governor of Louisiana Mt
that time, but also Surveyor General,
Attorney General and Register of the
General Land Office.
Now really that is n mastery defense
and 1t took genius to conceive it !
The historical statement of fnct, so far
as 1t goes, Is very accurate, but the
Bulletin does not bring it down to the
McEnery epoch. 1t Is true that the
contract under which tho land grab
was made possible was entered into
during the administration of the late
Gov. Wiltz, but it will be remembered
that the grab was unearthed by the
Picayune when at Its best under tho
administration OF the present Governor.
OF course there was nothing in the
charge but Gov. NlcEnery was finally
forced to call for the resignation Of the
Register of the Land Office who was
mixed up in the grab some way or
other. But that charge has been
knocked into the middle of next week
by the Bulletin and we will pass on 10
show how 1t disposes of another:
The next "specific" is the "counting
In of the debt amendment"
We infer from this that tho Return
ing Bosrd still exists and that the
mantle Of J. Madison Wells has fallen
upon tho shoulders of s. ID. McEnery,
who by "slight twist of wrist" man
aged to manipulate the returns in the
canvass of 'S4 and to Wickedly falsify
the count. The motive which induced
the Governor to perform this act of
gratuitous prestidigitation is a mystery
reserved for the resurrection morn
when the secrets of all hearts shall be
made known. Even the Telegraph
fails to give us any ciew or to offer
any hypothesis which may eventually
lead to its solution.
The entering" editor of tho Bulletin
discounts any prcsiidigitaiionist we
ever saw sand we reckon we seen Il
hundred" Nothing of the kind could
have been entered" unless by II
diseased mind, But who ever did
manipulate those returns had the OK
pertuess of J. Madison Wells and as